So guise, now that Aomine is actually practicing again for the first time since, oh, his second year of middle school, do you think he's going to blow right past everyone again?

I mean, let's face it, he literally hasn't practiced basketball at all since he discovered no one could match him. And while Kuroko was surprised by the growth of every other member of the GoM, Aomine didn't surprise him at all. Which is to say, Aomine hasn't improved at all since he stopped practicing, and he's played a game seriously a literal handful of times only.

>>101468810
Why would he be the final boss? Yeah, he was the captain and yeah, he's supposedly scary, but Aomine was the ace for a reason. Now that he's actually improving for the first time in over two years, why not?

Aomine didn't "practice" because he didn't need too since he already learned all the street BB skills he use now as a kid but he do had practice because he was participating various tournaments. So the answer is no, it ain't going to make him much stronger, kuroko is final boss.

>>101469417
Kuroko can't use misdirection against Touou anymore because he destroyed his lack of presence in their perceptions. But he's lost that lack of presence anyway, so whatever he comes up with to be effective again will work against Touou as well. In case you missed that.

>>101469473
It's constantly said that what he does is possible because of his own, natural, lack of presence. And while he's beyond skilled at misdirection, he can't do it for more than a single moment at a time now that his natural lack of presence is gone.

But the replacement Kuroko doesn't have that trouble, which is implied to be because he can manipulate his own presence. Kuroko's going to figure out how to do that, and combined with his experience in using misdirection itself in not just basketball, but in his everyday life to practice, he's going to be a lot better than the replacement.

>but manipulating his presence doesn't make sense!
Neither do Akashi's eyes, or Midorima's 100% accuracy from anywhere, or a whole lot of shit.

>>101469931
I don't remember him being able to manipulate his own presence. I do remember that unlike Kuroko, he's actually a somewhat good player since he can make shots normally and normal efficiency.

Kuroko can only do the Phantom Shot and since it's a weird stance it attracts some attention. On top of that, he already stood out by making buzzer beaters and all that stuff mentioned by Akashi (I think).

Kuroko can do what he does because of a combination of his lack of presence and his skill with misdirection. He can't do it anymore because he has actual presence now, thanks to learning how to shoot and generally drawing a lot of attention to himself. Replacement, to do what Kuroko does, would need to also have a lack of presence and skill with misdirection, but he's also shooting and doing other normal player things without losing his real advantage the way Kuroko has. Now, when doing what the two of them do relies on exactly two things (lack of presence and skill with misdirection), and one of those things would not just disappear (skill with misdirection), the only difference between them at this point is their presence. And since they're both doing the same things, the only way for Replacement to maintain his lack of presence is to consciously do so. Kuroko has never had to, because as the manga stresses every single time it brings it up, he had a "natural" lack of presence. It simply was, he didn't have to work for it.

>But the replacement Kuroko doesn't have that trouble, which is implied to be because he can manipulate his own presence.>Kuroko's going to figure out how to do that>he's going to be a lot better than the replacement.

Are you talking about Kuroko becoming better in the future due to being aware of his presence now or are you saying (like I read it) that he can do that in THIS final game against Akashi? Because I don't see how the latter makes sense.

>>101471463
The first one. He's going to become better in the future now that he's aware of his own presence. I don't think they have any way of winning the current game, which is why I don't think the manga is ending here.

>>101469511
Experience of flow of Csikszentmihalyi:
In such experiences the person involves himself in activities for the which there are few rewards, if there is a reward at all in the conventional sense; in those cases, the person participates in the activity because of the pleasure resulting of that compromise. The ones who partake in those activities frequently describe an experience of "flow" in which the attention focuses entirely in the task and there is a loss of self-awareness: the ego is totally absent. Everything seems to be in synchrony and the hours pass without consciousness of time. The athletes refer to this state of grace with the name of the "zone", an estate of beatific absorption focused in the present, in which viewers and competitor disappear and the excellence is produced without the less effort.

Hastily translated from my psychology of personality material. If you are further interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)>Formula One>Sport